Silver

Sylvie, 16, sees colours, where other people only hear words or feel emotions. She knows she has to keep this a secret - as people disappear to institutions if they get sick in the mind.

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Sylvie likes to dress in Lolita outfits and dreams of becoming an architect. She doesn't understand why she has to get married. It's a government efficiency - have children younger, work harder, longer. She wants to find love on her own terms.

Her parents force her into an arranged marriage with Alistair - he's a town planner, an obsessive gamer and has weird tendencies.

On her honeymoon, she meets the love of her life, Jarvis ... Now she has to find a way to be with him ...

*Originally published on Wattpad in 2014. A major rewrite in 2020-21.